Sun Mote Copse Like a phoenix.

Towhee stopped eating and pulled a face at the portmanteaus. -"They don't fit into the animal theme either,"- she pointed out. Unaware that she was somewhat surfing her friend's brainwave, she added, -"What surname will you two use?"- She couldn't read Niamh's mind, otherwise she would have also pointed out that she'd been using both Redhawk and Blackthorn for much of her life. As far as she knew, Phox didn't use their godparents' surname, though maybe Niamh still went by it and they would hyphenate too, so this whole generation could share a surname too.

She polished off the rest of the meat, licking blood from her lips and letting out a small, satisfied burp. She had given Niamh the opportunity to reply about last names and, regardless of her answer, there was something else Towhee wanted to ask of her. -"Phox agreed to help me raise Meerkat; he'll be her father figure, for all intents and purposes. And your kids will be her siblings. I'm her mother, of course, but I'd love it if you'd be more than an aunt or even just a godmother to her."- Towhee hadn't come up with a title just yet, though that could wait until she heard what her sister-in-law thought of the general idea in the first place.